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No. 79,891. Patented July 1-4. 1868.

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HENRY M. BEECHER, OF PLANTS VILLE,CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR T0 H. D. SMITHAND GOMPANY OF SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 79,891, dated July 14, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN TELL-COUPLING.

TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS MAY COME:

Be it known that I, HENRY M. BEEQHER, cfPlantsvill, in. the county of Hartford, and State of .Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in 1erriage-Shaft Couplings; and do hereby declare the same'to be fully described in the following specification, and represented in the eccomp anying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a side eievation, and y I Figure 2 afront end view of a. shaft-coupling 'provided with my improvement, which consists in providing its-hinge-connection at its base withilips or projections, to extend laterally from it, and increase the bearingsnrfaco of the base, and receive bolts or screws, to go into the part of the carriage on which the base is .to rest.

In the drai win gs, the hinge-eonn'ection'is shown at A, as con uecting the two pzirts B G of the coupling; they beingin the form ,which they have as the coupling is made for sale to (infringe-makers.

The hinge-connection, instead of being formed in the ordinary way, I make with the curved lips a a, to extend from it, at its base, in opposite directions. Holes to receive screws may be made obliquely through these projectiohs or lips it a, such srews being to hold the base from rising or being-mowed laterally on the bar on which it is'supported .when applied to a carriage. I

' I claim the improved shaft-connection, as inad'e with the lips a a to its base, and in other respects, substantially as described and re'presented.'

HENRY M, .BEEQHER. Witnesses Smsow H. -NORTON, SARAH E; 'NonToN. 

